Mausolea and Monuments Trust

The Mausolea and Monuments Trust is a charity for the "protection and preservation of mausolea and funerary monuments situated in Great Britain and Ireland."[1] The trust was founded in 1997 by the architectural historian Jill Allibone (1932–1998).[2] Tim Knox, then the director of the Soane Museum and the trust's first chairman, described it as “the dottiest conservation cause in the land”.[3]

The Mausolea and Monuments Trust logo

The trust has responsibility for six mausolea:

• The Bateman Mausoleum, Morley, Derbyshire[4]
• The Heathcote Mausoleum, Hursley, Hampshire[5]
• The Wynne Ellis Mausoleum, Whitstable, Kent[6]
• The Nash Mausoleum, Farningham, Kent[7]
• The Guise Mausoleum, Elmore, Gloucestershire[8]
• The Boileau Mausoleum, Ketteringham, Norfolk[9]

The trust publishes a regular journal titled Mausolus, and researches and maintains a gazetteer of mausolea in Great Britain and Ireland.[10]